PowerShell Deployment Toolkit version 2.6 has now been posted to the TechNet Gallery here . Version 2.6 resolves a number of bugs, and also adds the following capabilities: High availability for roles that require network load balancing Shared VHDX creation...

Hello readers, Victor Arzate here. I'm a Program Manager in the Windows Server and System Center CAT team and in this post I will walk you through the different steps required to deploy the Hello World custom Resource Provider sample that is included...

One question that I hear often on PDT is this – why does PDT think my Variable.xml is invalid? When you run any of the PDT scripts – Downloader.ps1, VMCreator.ps1, or Installer.ps1 – the script reads both Workflow.xml and Variable.xml. If either one of...

Hello migration friends! I just wanted to publish a quick congratulations to Vision Double-Take for publishing the blog post below that includes an implementation of MAT for MOVE . Thanks to the engineers at Vision working on Double-Take, MOVE was already...

Introduction
In this blog post, I will give you an overview on how to create users in WAP and have them sign in. As you might already know, the Authentication and Authorization processes are separated into their own entities making the stack flexible...

Hi again, it’s Jeff Buller . I am a Program Manager on the Windows Server and System Center CAT team. This is the second of two posts on how to deliver Windows 8/RT applications to users, utilizing Configuration Manager 2012 R2 and Windows Intune...

Hey Readers! I have somewhat of an academic post for you all today to help document a topic that has come up from time to time around System Center 2012 Orchestrator and service dependencies. Explained in detail below but the gist to this scenario is...

This is a guest post from Martin Booth, a Senior Technical Product Manager in the System Center Product Team. I asked Martin to write about Windows Code Signing and Sideloading, a topic that many folks have questions about and would like to better understand...

Hello readers / viewers. I have a topic that I think will be valuable for folks looking to ensure they are backing up their SMA Runbook investments to the fullest extent within WAP (Windows Azure Pack) and storing those in TFS ( Team Foundation Server...

Hello Readers
As some good insight was just released on the Service Manager Blog, we wanted the readers of Building Clouds to be aware of this.
Christian Booth has just released a new blog post where the Service Manager Team explains some important...

Freek Berson a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) MVP developed this concept model on driving a solution for RDS in Azure. The question we ask when discussing this topic with Freek was: What if you wanted to get all the great enhancements to Remote Desktop...

This is a table of contents for the entire Contoso Labs series. Posts will be categorized by main topics that they cover.
Introduction and Planning
Introduction
Who are the Users? What is the Service?
Hardware Resources
Fabric Choices...

Welcome to a new series here on the Building Clouds Blog: Contoso Labs . A new post in this series will run every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. What is Contoso Labs? Contoso Labs is a project that is being undertaken by our team in Windows...

Hello Readers and Viewers! Wow, it has been a while since I posted, in fact it was back in December with the completion of my Windows Azure & PowerShell Blog Series . The good news is - in that time, I have been hard at work, developing new and exciting...

Hello readers Continuing the WAP Troubleshooting series with a small blog post on a few things that you might want to know about in Update Rollup 1 (UR1) of Windows Azure Pack 2013 (WAP) There are two areas that can cause some challenges post implementing...

Contoso Labs Series - Table of Contents Now that we've laid out our high-level business goals for the project , we have to identify some basic information that will help define the service. Every well-executed IT project has to consider its users...